Cyrus Jabbari

Imagine several hazmat suit–clad figures in a room monitoring what appear to be stacks of computer servers connected by a web of tubing. A colorless liquid begins to flow out of the final tube and into a storage container. One individual in the room turns and nods to the observation window, confirming the successful resumption of Syria's chemical weapons program. Or, picture elsewhere a cohort of U.S. Marines, who just received artillery fire near a village.